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Refugee lives

29 June 2017

  • Migrant boats often stop at fishing villages to refill petrol tanks

    Organised violence is ravaging Central America and displacing thousands

    Robert Muggah
    Millions have fled El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, and it’s not surprising, 43 of the 50 most homicidal cities are located in Latin America and the Caribbean

15 June 2017

  • As Venezuela continues to unravel, there will be more pressure on Brazil

    Brazil's refugee policy needs a radical overhaul in response to Venezuela's crisis

    Maria Beatriz Nogueira and Maiara Folly
    Brazil has received 15,000 asylum claims this year, but its national asylum system hasn’t been updated since 1997 when it got 500 applications a year

10 May 2017

  • Mesfin shop

    ‘They call him the millionaire’: the refugee who turned his camp into a business empire

    After fleeing persecution in Ethiopia, Mesfin Getahun arrived in Kakuma with nothing. Now he runs a business based on trust, friendship and charitable giving

28 April 2017

  • Eqbal Mohammed Dauqan

    The scientists who had to start over: ‘five years of my career have been wiped out’

    Academics, engineers and doctors are among the millions of people displaced each year, but host governments rarely take advantage of their skills

18 April 2017

  • Leoluca Orlando, mayor of Palermo

    He fought the mafia and won. Now this mayor is taking on Europe over migrants

    Leoluca Orlando is a legend in Italy for taking on Palermo’s mafiosi, but today he’s fighting for migrants to freely enter EU states

13 March 2017

  • Ahmad Joudeh

    'It’s dance or die': The ballet dancer forbidden to perform by Islamic State

    Facing death threats, Ahmad Joudeh risked everything to keep his dream of dancing alive. Now the Palestinian dances for the Dutch National Ballet

9 March 2017

  • An Afghan refugee lives in a makeshift tent on the outskirts of Jalalabad, a city in eastern Afghanistan

    Forced repatriation to Afghanistan: 'We didn't think it would happen to us'

    An estimated million refugees will return from Pakistan and Iran this year, despite Afghanistan still being plagued by conflict and unemployment

23 February 2017

  • Afghan refugee Rukhsar Sameem, 4, covers her face with a teddy bear while playing at a refugee camp

    The children living in limbo: 'I feel 100 years old instead of 16'

    Even Sweden, the most generous of countries, is now rethinking its immigration policy - we follow one young refugee as he adapts to his new home
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